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'Big drop' in alcohol consumption - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent

Alcohol consumption dropped in the UK at the sharpest rate for 60 years, according to industry figures yesterday.

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said drinkers drank 8.4 litres of wine, beer and spirits in 2009, six per cent lower than 2008. It stressed Britons were now consuming 13 per cent less alcohol than in 2004, with consumption remaining below the EU average.

Butbutbut, is all the alcohol drunk on the beaches of Benidorm, Ibiza, Mallorca or Crete included?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Sep 3rd, 2010 at 02:09:21 PM EST
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Oh, that doesn't count because it's not counted.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sat Sep 4th, 2010 at 06:46:12 AM EST
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Alcohol consumption dropped in the UK at the sharpest rate for 60 years, according to industry figures yesterday.

Helen, what the hell have you been doing, or in this case, NOT doing? You're letting us down.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Sep 4th, 2010 at 07:15:09 AM EST
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I probably don't count, I'm not a volume drinker. A big evening for me is 6 pints, 4 is usually enough and I'll only do that once or twice a week

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Sep 4th, 2010 at 08:17:42 AM EST
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I was thinking the other day about the UK title of Lord and realized how little I knew about the UK governing system so I just visited Wiki to find:

Unlike the House of Commons, membership of the House of Lords is not attained by election from the population as a whole, but by inheritance or by appointment (Lords Temporal), or by virtue of their ecclesiastical role within the established church (Lords Spiritual).

OMG, the US Senate is bad enough but THIS?! You are screwed!

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sat Sep 4th, 2010 at 08:48:54 AM EST
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